"I see," said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw! :-)
Good web services will be slower and less reliable than good ODBC. Having said that, there're many, many things you can do to make web services fast/reliable "enough" and, obviously, the cloud has lots of other advantages... On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Billy Cox <bi...@oldworldspices.com> wrote: > > Salesforce and Netsuite both have a web services API. I am trying to > gauge impacts involved with switching from a system that uses ODBC to a > cloud based system. If a web service is faster and/or more reliable > than ODBC, then that helps me to make a case for the cloud. > > John M Bliss wrote: > > I'm still not sure I understand but, ignoring that for a sec, have you > > determined that salesforce.com / netsuite offer API's that'd allow you > to > > "touch" their systems via WSDL and ODBC? If so, I'd ask salesforce.com/ > > netsuite which is faster. > > > > Typically, WSDL / webservices are good for touching "cloud systems." > > > > Typically (at least, in my experience), ODBC is not available for > touching > > "cloud systems." That is, "cloud systems" don't allow you to touch them > via > > ODBC. But I suppose it's possible...? > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Billy Cox <bi...@oldworldspices.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> It would be in the context of syncing a local app server with a cloud > >> system like salesforce.com or netsuite. > >> > >> > >> John M Bliss wrote: > >> > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language versus > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity ? In what > >>> > >> context > >> > >>> are you comparing those two? > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Billy Cox <bi...@oldworldspices.com > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Has anyone here had a chance to evaluate system performance and > >>>> reliability of WSDL versus ODBC? > >>>> > >>>> -Billy Cox > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325805 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
